Jesus

and Pilate again inquired of him, "Aren't you going to answer? Look how many charges they are making against you!"

But Yeshua made no further response, to Pilate's amazement.

For it was evident to him that it was out of jealousy that the head cohanim had handed him over.

Pilate again said to them, "Then what should I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?"

They shouted back, "Put him to death on the stake!"

He asked, "Why? What crime has he committed?" But they only shouted louder, "Put him to death on the stake!"

So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the mob, set Bar-Abba free for them; but he had Yeshua whipped and then handed him over to be executed on the stake.

The soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the headquarters build ing) and called together the whole battalion.

They dressed him in purple and wove thorn branches into a crown, which they put on him.

Then they began to salute him, "Hail to the King of the Jews!"

They hit him on the head with a stick, spat on him and kneeled in mock worship of him.

When they had finished ridiculing him, they took off the purple robe, put his own clothes back on him and led him away to be nailed to the execution-stake.

A certain man from Cyrene, Shim`on, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country; and they forced him to carry the stake.

They brought Yeshua to a place called Gulgolta (which means "place of a skull"),

and they gave him wine spiced with myrrh, but he didn't take it.

Then they nailed him to the execution-stake; and they divided his clothes among themselves, throwing dice to determine what each man should get.

It was nine in the morning when they nailed him to the stake.

Over his head, the written notice of the charge against him read, THE KING OF THE JEWS

On execution-stakes with him they placed two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.

And the passage from the Tanakh was fulfilled which says,

People passing by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! So you can destroy the Temple, can you, and rebuild it in three days?

Save yourself and come down from the stake!"

Likewise, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers made fun of him, saying to each other, "He saved others, but he can't save himself!"

and, "So he's the Messiah, is he? The King of Isra'el? Let him come down now from the stake! If we see that, then we'll believe him!" Even the men nailed up with him insulted him.

At three, he uttered a loud cry, "Elohi! Elohi! L'mah sh'vaktani?" (which means, "My God! My God! Why have you deserted me?")